Free Showing
Wednesday December 9th 2009
7.30pm (8pm start)
In the Upper Hall at St Mary's Church Centre, St Mary's Road, Leamington.

The Pig of Happiness

The Green Christmas Fair

Enjoy an eco-ethical Christmas.
At Dale Street Methodist Church Hall
Saturday 12th December 2009
11am to 2pm

With local eco, organic and fair trade stalls selling Christmas gifts there will also be environmental groups and social enterprises promoting the sustainable projects currently going on in the Leamington and Warwick area.

The Green Christmas Fair's Facebook Page

New Nature Reserve in Bishops Itchington

The Yellow Land Natural Heritage Project has secured £50,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Volunteers, led by Project Officer Chris Redstall, have already started working on the site.
Anyone who would like to get involved in the project should call 811394 or email yellowland@btconnect.com


Leamington Courier article

James Plaskitt's New Facebook Group

James Plaskitt, MP for Warwick and Leamington, has started a new Facebook group called
Going Green in Warwick and Leamington!
He also has his own website: James Plaskitt MP. He twitters too!

Sydni Community Garden

Saturday 31st October
Blooming Marvellous
10.00am to 1.00pm - Help us plant
bulbs in our community garden

followed by
Action 21's Great Pumpkin Event
1.00 to 3.00pm - Carve pumpkins and
eat pumpkin food

at the Sydni Centre,
Cottage Square, Sydenham

Seal the Deal website

Visit Transition Town Leamington

Fury after officials take down Bishops Tachbrook housing protesters' signs

Bishop's Tachbrook residents are angry because the county council has taken down signs they posted in the village protesting about plans to build over 4000 new houses in their area.
Courier article

Action 21 need your help!

The Dobson Lane Allotments

Ground Clearance Work Party

Friday 25th September, 9 am – 4.30 pm

Work is finally starting to happen on Action 21's Allotment Restoration project at Dobson Lane! We need your help, in clearing the brambles and debris on site - this is in preparation for getting the land ploughed and then plotted out into allotments.

It should be a fun day and a good chance to find out about the vision for the allotment development and you'll also be able to register your interest in an allotment.

Hot drinks will be available throughout the day and a lunch for those who volunteer for the whole day. Please wear old work clothes with long sleeves, long trousers and sturdy footwear. If you have tools such as loppers, rakes and gloves then please bring these along too.

Please note that the allotment site is right at the end of Dobson Lane, adjacent to the cemetery. If you'd like to help out and/or have any questions about the day please contact Amy Footer the Volunteer Development Worker on 01926 456 072 or amy@action21.co.uk or if you have any general questions about the project then please speak to Rick on 01926 456067 or rick@action21.co.uk

1010 Campaign Launches Today

What is 1010?
It's a campaign organised by Fanny Armstrong (director of Age Of Stupid) which aims to get everyone in the UK to pledge to cut their carbon footprints by 10% in 2010. The campaign will be officially launched at the Tate Modern Gallery in London tonight.






www.1010uk.org

Zero Carbon Benefit Gig

Brought to you by Leamington's Transition Town.


Friday 4th September 7.00 - 11.00pm




at Leam Boat Centre, Mill Road (Jephson Gardens), Leamington Spa, CV31 1BH


A zero carbon benefit concert for the Zero Carbon Caravan (which is travelling by zero carbon transport to December's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen)

Bands playing:

All Sparks
Eco Worriers
Knoxville Paranoia
No Face

Admission £2.00

Bring a torch or candle
Solar power by Transition Town Leamington

Save The Planet With Fake Trees?

I had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn't April 1st when I came across this newspaper article in the Daily Mail. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers are suggesting we use fake trees to soak up CO2 emissions. Apparently real trees aren't efficient enough......

Daily Mail article August 27th 2009

Leamington Food & Drink Festival 2009

Saturday August 29th & Sunday 30th August - Pump Room Gardens.






There will be cookery demonstrations, free tastings, stalls and live music.

Leamington's Transition Town group will have a stall there. Leamington became a Transition Town last year and is now committed to adapting to the challenges of climate change and peak oil.
Leamington's Transition Town blog

The Festival's website

Offenders gardening project hailed as a success

In a pilot-scheme in Rugby young offenders have been growing fruit and veg on an allotment, learning gardening, cooking and conservation skills. Some of the produce is donated to local Age Concern-run day care centres. The scheme may now be rolled out across Warwickshire.

Offenders turning over a new leaf - Rugby Observer article

Save the Walnut Tee Campaign

A campaign in Lillington to save the Walnut Tree pub from being turned into a Tesco Express has attracted worldwide interest. Tesco's have bought the pub but local people haven't given up their fight. The campaign has a website where you can sign an e-petition.

The campaign in Leamington Courier

Local Opposition To Wind Farm

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Energy company Broadview Energy Ltd want to build a wind farm on a site near Bishops Itchington and Knightcote. An opposition group has already been formed, led by George Wood who used to work for National Grid. Broadview will spend the next six months doing a feasibility study on the site. They have an online consultation website.
Read the Leamington Courier article here: Protesters blast plans for wind farm in south Warwickshire

The 11th Hour

It's our generation that gets to change the world... forever.

The 11th Hour will be showing at the Sydni Centre on Friday 24th July at 7.30pm.


Co-written, co-produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this documentary looks at the state of the global environment and asks what solutions we can find to restore our planet's ecosystems.


The Sydni Centre is in Cottage Square, Sydenham, Leamington Spa, CV31 1PT.


11th Hour - official website

Earth Days

Official Selection 2009 Sundance Film Festival

Directed by Robert Stone
This documentary traces the rise of the eco-movement in America and includes rare archive footage and contributions from Paul Ehrlich, author of Population Bomb, and Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, amongst others.


Watch the trailer for Earth Days on Youtube

Southam scheme to provide habitat for rare butterfly

The caterpillar of the endangered Small Blue butterfly only feeds on kidney vetch plants. These were planted along both sides of Southam bypass by volunteers in 2006. They are now flowering and it's hoped will soon be colonised by Small Blue butterflies.
Hope for rare Warwickshire butterfly - Leamington Observer

RSPCA: Campaign Network

RSPCA: Campaign Network



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Getting Kineton Growing

A group in Kineton called Getting Kineton Growing have negotiated with Stratford District Council to have two demonstration plots on the village green in a bid to encourage local residents to try their hand at growing vegetables.

Courier article on Kineton gardening group

Getting Kineton Growing will be handing out leaflets and information about the project at Kineton Farmer's Market this Saturday (July 11th).

350.org - In every corner of the globe...

I found this video today from 350.org which is promoting an International Day of Climate Action on 24th October 2009. The 350 refers to 350 parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere. NASA’s James Hansen and other climatologists believe this is the safe level beyond which we will see devastating damage done to our planet.

Wonky Fruit & Veg

The European Commission has scrapped regulations that prevented the sale of misshapen fruit and vegetables. This is good news for the environment because up to 20% of fruit and vegetables have previously been rejected. The big supermarkets say that their customers like their carrots to be shapely and won't buy ones that are deformed.
Guardian slideshow - wonky fruit and vegetables